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Swa-go, Pottawattamie Indian

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Swago, was an eccentric Pottawattamie Indian who was an object of special notice when he came to the trading House of Ewing & Walker & Co., in Logansport. which was a circumstance of common occurrence. But poor Swa-go [Swago] knew nothing of the ecinom-ic [economic] virtues . and his “purposes” of trade were often assumed to cover up the hidden and nefarious object of obtaining whisky. He seldom had a mus-gui. He was often the agent of others, for of his own Swago had a passionate fondness for liquor peculiar to the red race.

This Indian was a sort of man friday to Nas . waw kay [Knaswawkay or Naswawkay] - the great orator. He was a devoted follower of him. The orator seemed to hold a magnetic influence over subordinates. There was between them seemingly a fixed relationship suggesting the mind that of knight and squire, as of the chivalric and medieval times.

Knas. waw kay [Knaswawkay or Naswawkay] - but seldom indulged in the “fire – water” himself, but Swa-go - seldom breathed soberly, when corn-si tosh - was within his grasp.

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Swago, was an eccentric Pottawattamie Indian who was an object of special notice when he came to the trading House of Ewing & Walker & Co., in Logansport. which was a circumstance of common occurrence. But poor Swa-go [Swago] knew nothing of the ecinom-ic [economic] virtues . and his “purposes” of trade were often assumed to cover up the hidden and nefarious object of obtaining whisky. He seldom had a mus-gui. He was often the agent of others, for of his own Swago had a passionate fondness for liquor peculiar to the red race.

This Indian was a sort of man friday to Nas . waw kay [Knaswawkay or Naswawkay] - the great orator. He was a devoted follower of him. The orator seemed to hold a magnetic influence over subordinates. There was between them seemingly a fixed relationship suggesting the mind that of knight and squire, as of the chivalric and medieval times.

Knas. waw kay [Knaswawkay or Naswawkay] - but seldom indulged in the “fire – water” himself, but Swa-go - seldom breathed soberly, when corn-si tosh - was within his grasp.